Phylogenetic diversity (PD)
Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities
... greatest PD, we need to consider why tree communities of western Amazonia show such high ...species diversity is due to recently radiated spe- cies-rich genera (Gentry, 1982) such as Inga (Richardson et ...
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Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably
... logic, phylogenetic diversity has formed the basis of global conservation schemes, notably the EDGE of exis- tence program 18 has been used by restoration biologists 19 and has been widely embraced by ...
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Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities
... greatest PD, we need to consider why tree communities of western Amazonia show such high ...species diversity is due to recently radiated spe- cies-rich genera (Gentry, 1982) such as Inga (Richardson et ...
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Quantifying phylogenetic beta diversity: distinguishing between 'true' turnover of lineages and phylogenetic diversity gradients
... that PD gradients may distort phylogenetic turnover patterns if the PBD measures ...incorporate PD differences between localities (or ...of phylogenetic diversity due to regional ...
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Tropical secondary forest regeneration conserves high levels of avian phylogenetic diversity
... whether phylogenetic diversity—the total evolu- tionary history across all species within a community — also ...Conserving phylogenetic diversity protects unique phenotypic and ecological ...
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Continental scale patterns and predictors of fern richness and phylogenetic diversity
... In an earlier study, fern richness across Australia was docu- mented at the species scale and using a dataset approximately half the size of the present study (Bickford and Laffan, 2006). Differences in the datasets are ...
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Phylogenetic Diversity of Koala Retrovirus within a Wild Koala Population
... genetic diversity has been conducted primarily on KoRV in captive koalas housed in zoos in Japan, the United States, and ...genetic diversity in samples collected from 18 wild koalas from southeast ...
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Genotype Imputation Reference Panel Selection Using Maximal Phylogenetic Diversity
... Comparable methods have been suggested by Pasaniuc et al. (2010) and Kang and Marjoram (2012). Pasaniuc et al. (2010) select an imputation template from an external data set based on similarity between haplotypes in the ...
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The Effects of Restoring Logged Tropical Forests on Avian Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity.
... the phylogenetic metrics are given in the Supplementary Materials (see Appendix S1: Section ...for PD, MPD and MNTD, the observed community was compared against 999 null ...for phylogenetic ...
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ghost-tree: creating hybrid-gene phylogenetic trees for diversity analyses
... unreliable phylogenetic trees, which is problematic because phylogenetic information is useful both for taxonomic placement of unknown sequences and for phylogenetic diversity ...ample, ...
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Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds.
... The nomenclature for measures of how isolated a species is on a phyloge- netic tree has not yet been standardized. We used the fair proportion metric [9, 64], which is the weighted sum of the branch lengths along the ...
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Phylogenetic Diversity of Vibrio cholerae Associated with Endemic Cholera in Mexico from 1991 to 2008
... relationships. Phylogenetic analysis indicated the six ...five phylogenetic clades: ...of phylogenetic analysis, coupled with CTX array and anti- biotic susceptibility, do not support single-source ...
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Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010
... taxonomic diversity, functional diversity, and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages, using roadside monitoring data of the North American Breeding Bird Survey from 1971 to ...or ...
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Fungal-host diversity among mycoheterotrophic plants increases proportionally to their fungal-host overlap
... host diversity available for plants is restricted as mycoheterotrophic interactions often involve narrow lineages of fungal ...host diversity may be additionally modulated by plant–plant interactions ...
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Metagenomic Approaches Unearth Methanotroph Phylogenetic and Metabolic Diversity
... Single marker gene sequencing of the 16S rRNA genes along with bacterial MMO (pmoA, mmoX) and archaeal MCR (mcrA) genes have sampled methanotrophs from a wide range of environments. From these studies it is inferred that ...
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Skin microbiome of coral reef fish is highly variable and driven by host phylogeny and diet
... Using method A, interspecific differences of phylogenetic diversity of fish skin microbiome.. Moran’s I autocorrelation tests after subsampling of one fish individual.[r] ...
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 genetic evolution in children with different rates of development of disease.
... sequences. Phylogenetic reconstructions were generated by using neighbor joining in the PHYLIP pro- gram (28, 28a), with a Kimura two-parameter distance matrix and a ratio of transition to transversion of ...
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Highly divergent ancient gene families in metagenomic samples are compatible with additional divisions of life
... significant phylogenetic depth of these ...[10–15]). Phylogenetic analyses of envir- onmental sequences also hinted at the existence of previously unobserved archaea [16–18] and eukaryotic lineages ...
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Diversity and Molecular Phylogenetic Analyses of Parmelioid Lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) In Kenya
... on phylogenetic reconstructions may reveal previously unrecognized phenotypical differences that supported the independence of the distinct species-level clades (Arguello et ...species-level diversity ...
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Hakkenberg_unc_0153D_16812.pdf
... function, diversity, and composition can be imagined as an n-dimensional abstraction, analogous to principal components, that when combined in nonparametric models with equally complex predictor data, such as ...
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